Cotton-sweep.



Patented Feb. 8, 1916.

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THE COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH co., WASHINGTON. D. C.

' To all whom it may concern JACOB CLEMMONS YOUNG, or ronovrew, TEXAS.

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.Be it known that 1, Jason C. YOUNG, citizen of the United States,residing at Longview, in the county of Gregg and State of Texas, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Cotton-Sweeps, of whichthe following is aspecification.

.This invention relates to attachments for plows, Cultivators andsimilar implements, and has for one of its objects to provide a simplyconstructed attachment adapted to be employed in cultivating cotton andlike plants and commonly known as sweeps or scrapers out materialstructural change to plows of various forms.

Another object of the invention is to provide a simply constructeddevice of this character which will scrape and cultivate the earth inclose proximity to the plants and roll the earth over upon the roots ofthe plants.

With these and vother objects in view the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction to be hereinafter shown and described andthen spec'ificallypointed out in the claim and in the drawingsillustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention.

Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in section of a portion of aconventional plow with the improved attachment applied, the plow shovelor share being in section. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the partsshown inFig. 1 with the standard in section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 isa front elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is an enlargedtransverse section of one of the sweep wings in section on the line 4-4of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is an enlarged transverse section of one of the sweepwings in section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is a viewof the blankfrom which the sweep wings are constructed. Fig. 7 is'a view similar toFig. 1 illustrating a modification in the construction.

Corresponding to in the following in all the views of the accompanyingings by the same reference characters.

The improved device comprises coacting wings diverging rearwardly andoutwardly, preferably at an angle of approximately 78 and united by aflat central portion, the upper and lower edges of the win portionsextending in parallel relation, and the forand like parts are referreddescription and indicated draw- "Speci fication'. of Iletters Patent,

which may be attached with- 1 TA ES ATNT ries;

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ward faces-0f the wings being curved transverselyv and graduallyincreasing 1n 1 the and discharged fromthe outer rear ends-of thewings." The improved attachment may be adapt ed without materialstructural change to v plows of various forms and makes, and willusually be attached to'the standard, preferably at the rear. I

Under some circumstances,"ojr with some forms of plow, the attachmentmay be applied to the front tween the standard proved device is shownapplied to-a conventional plow, the share or moldboard is usually attached to the standard by a single bolt represented at 12.

" The improved attachment is preferably constructed from a single str pof metal,

preferably tempered steel, and includes av flat central portionindicated at 13 and rearwardly and laterally diverging wings representedas a whole at 14 and having their upper longitudinal edges rounded, asshown.

When applied to the rear face of the standard as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and3, the fiatcentral portion 13 will be held in position by the nut 15 ofthe bolt 12, which latter passes through a preferably rectangularopening formedin the central portion 13 of the sweep, and when appliedto the forward face of the standard asshown in Fig. 7 the flat centralportion 13 will be received in a recess in the forward face of thestandard 10 with the aperture for the bolt 12 preferably registeringwith an aperture in the portion 13 of the attachment, to receive thebolt 12, thus to prevent lateral movement of the sweep with respect tothe standard.

The diverging portions 14 of the improved device are formed with theirforward faces curved transversely and gradually in creasing in depthfrom the central portion 13 to the outer ends of the wings and with thecurved surfaces sloping rearwardly and upwardly as illustrated in Figs.4 and 5.

Fig. 4 represents an enlarged transverse section of one of the wings 14relatively near the central fiat portion 13 as indicated in Fig. 2, andis shown with a relatively fiat of the standard, or be- V and the shareor shovel. For the purpose of illustration, the imstandard '10 of anordinary shovel v H forward face, while Fig. 5 represents a transversesection of one of the wings near its outer end and showing the forwardface considerably deeper than at the inner end of the wing. It will herebe noted that the upper longitudinal edges sweep are rounded, while thelower longitudinal edges are sharpened and constitute cutting edges,these cutting edges being produced by curving or rounding the rear facesof the wings at the lower edges thereof and extending said rounded facesdownwardly and forwardly until they merge into or intersect the concavevforward faces of the wings, as best shown in cross section in Figs. 4and 5 of the drawings. By this means as the plow is drawn forwardly,weeds or other foreign growths are severed and the upper portion of theearth gradually overturned and deposited upon the plants and Withoutinjury thereto. lVhen not required, the at tachment may be readilyremoved by disengaging the holding bolt 12 and restoring the share orshovel 11 to position upon the standard.v The recess in the standard forthe flat portion 13 when arranged as shown in Fig. 7 does not interferewith the ordinary uses, of the plow, as will be obvious.

The improved device is simple in construct on, can be inexpensivelymanufactured and of the wings of the applied by any person withoutprevious skill or knowledge or experience to plows already manufactured,or the improvement may be applied to the plows when manufactured andused when required or removed when not required.

Having thus described the invention, what is'claimed as new'isz A sweepcomprising a central forwardly inclined portion having an openingtherein for the reception'of an attaching device and provided withintegral diverging wings of uniform width and length and disposed at anangle of approximately seventy-eight degrees, the upper longitudinaledges of said wings being roundedand the forward faces thereof concaveand gradually increasing in depth from the central portion to the outerends, of the wings, the rear faces of the wings at the lower edgesthereof being curved downwardly and forwardly and gradually merged intothe concave faces of said wings to form cuttingedges.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JACOB OLEMMONS YOUNG.

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Washington, LDLG.

